Chapter 159 It's Wei
One hand unconsciously touched the hem of the robe, and Wang Er looked unhappy. This robe was borrowed and didn't fit him well. The long robe barely covered his pants, but he had just raised both arms, so his pants were definitely exposed.
Wang Er didn't care what outsiders thought of him wearing women's pants. What he was afraid of was that someone would recognize the pants. After all, the owner of the pants was considered to be occupied by him.
He didn't want to risk being recognized by wearing these pants, but among the three brothers, he only had two pairs of pants that he could wear outside.
On weekdays, whoever wants to go out and meet people will wear the more decent pants.
Logically, he could have worn one pair of pants when he came to Bei'an City, but before leaving, his third brother was called to work and wore one pair of pants. The remaining one has to be worn tightly around the second brother. If he is not at home, someone has to watch the woman hiding in the room.
In the end, he had no choice but to lie down and put on the woman's pants.
Along the way, his pants were exposed to people more than once. Those who saw it just glanced at it and then left with a funny look on their faces.
Only the little girl behind me kept staring at me...
Wang Er was worried and couldn't help but glance back, only to see that the girl had turned her face away and was no longer looking at him, and he felt relieved.
The little girl had little experience and it was definitely the first time she saw a man wearing women's pants. She couldn't help but feel curious, so she looked at them a few more times. It seemed that she didn't recognize the pants.
After this scare, Wang Er no longer had the intention of raising the price. He stood on the street with the cow, lowered the price to thirteen taels, and quickly sold the cow.
After selling the cow, Wang Er did not stay in the city to buy anything, but went out of the city and went home with the silver.
There is a small town to the north of Shanyao Village, only about twenty miles away from Shanyao Village. There are quite a few shops selling things in the town. You can go to the town to buy things. It is better not to buy things in Bei'an City.
His eyelids twitched several times. It was not a good sign. He should go home quickly.
On Gu Tang's side, the father and daughter had already bought the cow, and went to a place not far away where carts were sold. They bought a new cart, put it on the cow, and let it pull the cart.
Considering that the cow was extremely docile, Gu Tang waved the whip and tried to drive the cart.
Gu Lianshan was watching from the side with great trepidation, fearing that the cow would not listen to outsiders and become restless.
Fortunately, the cow was very obedient. It followed Gu Tang's instructions and walked when told to and stopped when told to. It was much more obedient than Gu Liu's cow.
"These twelve taels of silver are really worth it!" Gu Tang said to her father happily, feeling that she had gotten a bargain.
"It's definitely worth the price." Gu Lianshan nodded. This cow was unexpectedly good.
Driving the newly bought ox cart, Gu Tang walked in front, while Gu Lianshan drove Gu Liu's ox cart behind. The father and daughter went to buy some things first, and then went to the yard to catch chickens and ducks.
There were not many people in the city at the moment, so the father and daughter drove the cart briskly, walking through two streets in a row, buying rice, flour, and charcoal, as well as some cloth. They also bought a fur coat, a pair of cotton trousers, and a pair of winter shoes for the third uncle.
The fur coat is made of sheepskin and is very thick. The filling of the cotton trousers is kapok, which is also in short supply. As for winter shoes, Gu Tang chose rabbit skin ones, which are warm to wear and keep his feet warm.
In addition to buying things for her third uncle, Gu Tang did not forget her father and bought him a pair of rabbit leather winter shoes. Gu Ping'an also got a pair.
As for Gu Tang herself, she bought two pairs of shoes and two pairs of cotton trousers at once. In addition, she took a fancy to a lilac sheepskin fur coat, and after trying it on, she found it fit her perfectly, so she bought both.
Gu Lianshan watched his daughter spending money from the side, and he no longer felt sorry for the money as he did before. He knew that his daughter was an expert at making incense, so this little money was nothing to him. His daughter could earn money as much as she could spend, so he didn't feel sorry for it at all!
All the things were packed and loaded onto the truck, and more than ten taels of silver were gone.
Gu Tang was a little uncomfortable because she didn't hear her father's voice of being sorry for the money today. "Dad, why don't you feel sorry for the money today?"
"Dad is no longer a short-sighted person. It's just a dozen taels of silver, not much. Even if you spend more, Dad doesn't mind." Gu Lianshan said with a smile and was very generous.
Gu Tang didn’t know what happened to her father, and she didn’t believe what he said.
"Did you buy anything? Do you want to walk around a little longer?" Gu Lianshan took the initiative to ask his daughter if she wanted to continue spending money. It was really like the sun rising in the west.
Gu Tang shuddered, thinking that her father was not right. She thought that he was angry with her and lost his mind. She quickly shook her head and said that she would not buy it. "It's getting late. Let's go back to the yard and catch the chickens and ducks and bring them home."
"Okay, then let's go home first. Anyway, we have an ox cart at home. If you want to go to the city in the future, you can come anytime." Gu Lianshan got on the ox cart and still let Gu Tang go first.
No matter how docile this cow is, it is newly bought, and it is also Gu Tang's first time driving a cart. Gu Lianshan cannot be so careless as to let it go directly. He still has to keep an eye on it from behind.
After a while, the father and daughter drove the car one after another and stopped at the gate of the yard.
After opening the lock, the father and daughter led the ox cart into the yard and parked it in the second courtyard.
First, I counted the number of chickens and ducks, and found there were neither more nor less.
Gu Lianshan stayed in the chicken coop to pick up eggs, while Gu Tang took the key and went to check each room.
During the days they are away, please make sure no thieves break into the yard.
After checking all three courtyards, they found that nothing was missing from the house, and the food and other items hidden in the kitchen were all in place.
Nothing is missing, which means no one has come here secretly.
After returning to the second courtyard, Gu Tang said something to her father, and then helped to pick up eggs.
Some of these chicken and duck eggs were laid inside the nest, while others were laid outside. Those laid inside the nest were intact, while those laid outside had some thin skins that were frozen and cracked.
Gu Tang picked out the frozen and cracked chicken and duck eggs, put them separately in a small basket, and put some straw inside to prevent the egg liquid from leaking out due to the bumpy ride on the ox cart on the way back.
After picking up the eggs, the father and daughter turned out the chicken and duck cages that had been left here, took out the chickens and ducks and put them into the cages. They then loaded them onto the ox cart and tied them up with several hemp ropes to prevent them from falling on the road.
It didn't take much effort to finish all these. There was still enough time, so Gu Tang simply lit the stove in the kitchen and planned to boil a pot of hot tea and put it in a water bag to carry with him.
Gu Lianshan took advantage of this moment to inspect the yard, humming a little tune, looking very relaxed and contented.
When he returned to the kitchen, Gu Tang told him something: "When we bought the cow just now, the one called 'Wang Er', do you still remember him?"
"Remember! You can tell at a glance from his appearance and character that he is not a good person!" Gu Lianshan frowned and had a very bad impression of Wang Er.
And the cow: "His cow looks big, but its limbs seem to be a little shaky. I don't know if it is tired or has some disease."
Gu Tang really hadn't noticed this, but that wasn't the point, since they didn't buy his cows anyway.
"Dad, when his bull shook his head, did you see his pants under his robe?"
"What the hell?" Gu Lianshan was confused. "Wang Er's pants? Why should I look at his pants?"
"I saw it!" Gu Lian said excitedly, "He was wearing a pair of blue women's pants!"
Gu Lianshan didn't react to the latter part of the sentence. His mind was filled with the image of a girl staring at a man's pants. He immediately turned his face black: "Girl, why are you looking at other people's pants?"
"What are you thinking?" Gu Tang stared with dissatisfaction, "He is a man, but he wears a pair of women's pants. Who wouldn't be dissatisfied when seeing him?"
Gu Lianshan was a little slow to react, looking stunned. He finally reacted: "...Wang Er is wearing a pair of women's pants?!"
An image automatically popped up in his mind: a burly man wearing colorful women's pants... Gu Lianshan shuddered!
If I saw this myself, I would also stare at it for a few seconds!
A strong man wearing women's pants, ugh! This is not common.
Seeing that her father understood, Gu Tang rolled her eyes at him and continued, "I was curious at first, so I took a closer look. But the more I looked at the pants, the more familiar they looked. They looked exactly like my aunt's pants!"
"Ah?" Gu Lianshan was frightened again, and his voice was slightly sharp: "Whose pants do they look like?!"
"Like my aunt's pants."
Gu Lianshan stared at his daughter in a daze, then jumped up and said in a broken tone: "Like your aunt's pants?!"
"Yes, like my aunt's pants."
These words were like a heavy hammer, knocking Gu Lianshan unconscious: "Wait a minute! Let Daddy straighten it out!"
He walked back and forth in the kitchen like a headless fly, staring at Gu Tang with glowing eyes: "You said you saw Wang Er wearing a pair of women's pants, and then the more you looked at them, the more familiar they looked. Did you think they were your aunt's pants?"
"That's right! The pants Wang Er is wearing are exactly the same as my aunt's pants!"
At this point, Gu Tang described Wei's trousers, and then described the trousers Wang Er was wearing. Except for the flowers on the edge of the trousers, she couldn't confirm whether they were the same, but the fabric and style of the trousers, the two trousers were exactly the same.
Gu Lianshan was dumbfounded, and suddenly asked: "What kind of pattern is embroidered on Wang Er's pants? Can you tell me?"
"I'll draw it for you!" Gu Tang pulled out a thin piece of wood from the stove, blew out the fire on it, and used the charred end to draw on the ground.
"On the hem of the two trouser legs, one had three flowers embroidered on it, and the other had two flowers embroidered on it. The petals were embroidered so blurred that it was impossible to tell what the flowers were."
Gu Tang roughly drew the flowers embroidered on the pants, even the arrangement and shape of the flowers.
Gu Lianshan looked at the flowers on the ground, of which only the outline could be seen, with a complicated expression: "You are probably right, those pants really could belong to your aunt..."
"What? Have you also seen my aunt's blue trousers?" Gu Tang raised his eyebrows. Could Wei be so unsophisticated? Did she show off the pants in front of her father?
Gu Lianshan didn't notice the meaningful look in Gu Tang's eyes. He pointed at the flowers on the ground and said, "I was sitting in the corridor once, and your aunt came to show off to your mother in a pair of blue pants. The hem of the pants was made of moon-white cloth with a three-finger-wide edge and embroidered flowers.
Because there was not enough embroidery thread, three flowers were embroidered on one trouser leg and two flowers were embroidered on the other trouser leg. Your aunt's embroidery skills were not good. She said she embroidered a five-petal plum blossom, but in the end the petals were all embroidered into a bunch. Your mother made fun of her and your aunt even had a quarrel with your mother. ”
Now it was Gu Tang's turn to be confused: "Are you sure?" Are they really Wei's pants? !
"Of course I am sure. After your mother had a quarrel with your aunt, she came back to me and asked me for money to buy cloth for clothes. I ignored her and the matter was dropped."
Gu Tang pulled the corner of his mouth and said, "It's not that it's over. My mother asked me for money afterwards. I didn't give it to her, so she took the cloth you bought for me to make clothes."
Gu Lianshan: "...This is something your mother would do."
Gu Tang rubbed his face and said, "I won't mention my mother. What should I do about this? Should I go back and tell them?"
"Of course I have to tell you. That Wang Er lives in Shanyao Village. Ask your grandfather to ask someone in Shanyao Village. If your aunt is really there, you must bring her back no matter what."
Uh... this might be a bit difficult.
Gu Tang scratched his head. "My grandfather has already made up his mind to hold a funeral for my aunt. If I ask him to find someone to pick her up now, I'm afraid he won't agree. And my uncle is a scholar who cares about his reputation. If my aunt was really with Wang Er, I'm afraid she would have been killed by Wang Er..."
Gu Lianshan was stunned, obviously he had not expected this.
After thinking for a moment, he said, "We don't care about this matter. We will just tell your grandfather and your uncle about it. As for what to do next, that is your uncle's business. We will not interfere."
Gu Tang nodded. Indeed, this matter had nothing to do with them. In the end, it was still up to Gu Liansheng to decide what to do.
Throw the pulled out firewood back into the stove. After a while, the tea in the teapot began to boil, and the rich tea aroma filled the entire kitchen.
After the tea had been boiling for a while, Gu Tang took the teapot off the stove, turned off the stove, poured out two bowls of tea and put them aside to cool.
The remaining tea was all put into two water bags. When we set out later, we would put them close to our bodies. They would not only warm our bodies, but we could also drink a few sips to ward off the cold on the way.
After drinking the hot tea in the teacup, the father and daughter did not dare to delay any longer. They locked the gate and drove the ox cart out of the city.
When I came here in the morning, the sky seemed clear, but when I went back, it had turned cloudy.
Gu Lianshan glanced at the sky and felt a little worried. He hoped it wouldn't rain. It wouldn't be too late to wait until they got home.
Gu Tang, who was walking in front, also noticed that there was something wrong with the cumulus clouds in the sky, and subconsciously sped up, hoping to get home before it rained.
The father and daughter hurried all the way, and when they were almost at the entrance of the village, a drop of rain fell on Gu Tang's face.
Gu Tang wiped off the rain, looked up at the dark sky, and many raindrops fell densely on his face again.
She wiped her face, turned around and called out to her father, "Dad! It's raining!"
"Don't worry, don't worry. We're almost home. Don't be afraid of a little rain. Go slowly, but don't go too fast!" Gu Lianshan reminded her worriedly, afraid that his daughter would get anxious, and kept comforting her.
Gu Tang is not a real "child". Even if her father didn't tell her, she knows that she can't rush at this time.
When it rains, not only people get scared, but cows get scared too.
Fortunately, the rain had just started and was not very heavy. After entering the village, the father and daughter arrived at their doorstep soon.
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